It is easy for authors interested in philosophy and linguistics to allow their fiction to slip into a slough of linguistic puzzles and philosophical ponderings (not always, but oft
Hilary Dyer‘s The Pictures was written in response to an excerpt from Plague Grave (“Katkuhaud“) by Ene Mihkelson translated by Christopher Moseley. The poem has
In Plague Grave, a story of betrayal, the first-person narrator has grown up in strange ignorance of her origin. Her parents had gone into the forest in 1949, afraid of being depor
Pobeda 1946 is the story of a boy who is tricked by a security services agent into giving away the secret that his father is in hiding. A magical world swallows up the child but th
With Pobeda 1946: A Car Called Victory – a novel named for the emblematic Soviet saloon car produced from 1946 by the Molotov Works – Estonian author Ilmar Taska demonstrates t
This year’s London Book Fair features the literatures from three nation-states – Estonian, Latvia and Lithuania – but their national languages are not the only ones in the Ba
